Misfits: Wisdom from Unconventional Individuals
51 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis is the podcast where I speak to the rebels, the outliners and the unconventional. These people are the folks who see things differently, who have gone off the beaten path and found their pursuit.
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#48 Steve Schlafman, The Journey to Ikigai, 10 Years of Sobriety, Transition Coaching Models
November 07, 2023 11:43 - 1 hour - 100 MBSteve Schlafman (@schlaf) is a work-life transition coach. He’s certified with various coaching and therapeutic schools and programs including (but not limited to) The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, Coaching for Transformation, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Men’s Emotional Leadership (MELT) and Enneagram. Previously, Steve was a partner at a multi-billion venture capital firm, RRE. And graduated from Northeastern University. He has been sober for ...
#47 Seth Godin, How to Live a Life of Meaning and Significance
May 31, 2023 09:03 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBSeth Godin (@thisissethsblog) is the author of 21 bestsellers book. That includes Tribes, Purple Cow, Linchpin, The Dip, and This Is Marketing. His blog (which you can find by typing “Seth” into Google) is one of the most popular in the world. In 2013, Godin was inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame. Two of his TED talks are among the most popular of all time. He is also the founder of the altMBA, Squidoo (the social media pioneer) and Yoyodyne (one of the first internet companie...
#46 Designing designers with Chris Lee, Asylum Creative
April 13, 2023 07:58 - 2 hours - 142 MBChris Lee (@chrisasylum) is the founder of Asylum Creative, since 1999. His client list includes Aesop, Johnie Walker, Sony, Hublot, Harley-Davidson and more. The cross-disciplinary studio design logo, website to entire hotel and cafe interior. Most notably, The Warehouse Hotel, 4fingers and Tangs. His works can be found around Singapore, Shanghai, Chengdu, Beijing, Paris, Bali, Los Angeles, New York, Abu Dhabi, Tokyo, Venice, Kuala Lumpur and Seoul. After winning all the awards (D&AD, Red...
#45 Lin Tan — Journey to a $2,000/h Master Coach, Difference Schools of Coaching, Healing, and More
January 29, 2023 10:21 - 2 hours - 127 MBLin Tan, MCC is an executive and mentor coach and also a founder of Collective Change Institute (CCI). She is the youngest Master Certified Coach (ICF) in Singapore, making her 1 of 6 Master Coaches in Singapore. Lin also served as the president of ICF Singapore in 2020. Her clients include DHL, Royal Bank of Scotland, Burberry, Discovery Channel, and diverse agencies of the Singapore government. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Communications from Murdoch University, Australia. H...
#44 Making Celebrity Friends, Monk Mode and Marketing Deep Dive, Nate Green
July 14, 2020 04:46 - 1 hour - 61 MB“You don’t want to do what they do, you want to see how they see”. – Nate Green Nate Green, is an author of multiple books, marketing strategist at Precision Nutrition and a recovering fitness junkie. Nate barely graduated high school with 1.7 GPA. Despite all odds, he became one of the most sought after writers and strategists in the fitness industry. He wrote one of the most popular blog post on Tim Ferriss' blog, The Extreme Weight Cutting Secrets of UFC Fighters. In this conversat...
#43 Adventures and Advice From A Former World Class Pick-up Artist, Tynan
June 30, 2020 16:09 - 1 hour - 74 MBTynan, is an entrepreneur, personal coach and minimalist nomad. He is the author of best-selling books, Superhuman by Habit and Forever Nomad. Tynan also pioneered the idea of Empire housing, to share homeownership with friends. With this, he brought an island in Canada and homes in Hawaii, Budapest, Tokyo and Vegas. In his former life, he is a pickup artist and instructor, best known as Herbal in The Game by Neil Strauss. In this conversation, we spoke about: What he learnt as a pic...
#042 The Becoming of a 27 Year Old CEO Coach & Matchmaker, Nina Barber
June 14, 2020 06:41 - 2 hours - 98.3 MBNina Barber, is an executive and CEO coach & matchmaker. In 2 years, she is billing $2,500 - $10,000/month per client for her coaching services. She is also the founder of Prismaticco, a matchmaking service for startup executives to find coaches. Nina has also co-founded a social enterprise, Nika that brings clean water to more than 40,000 people every day. In this conversation, we spoke about: Why Nina spends $50,000 a year on self-development The emotional journey of operation to ...
#041 How to Have Great Sex in a Long-Term Relationship, Dr Stephen Snyder
May 23, 2020 09:33 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBDr Stephen Snyder is a sex and couple therapist for over 30 years. His goal, to help you have great sex. He is also the author of Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship. Stephen is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine. In this conversation, we spoke about: Why you should be sexually selfish How the idea of “desire” can mess up your sex life Why our thinking brain is stopping us from having "gre...
#040 Derek Sivers on Tinder Dating Strategies, Finding Purpose and the Art of Singapore
April 23, 2020 00:44 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBDerek Sivers, is a kind of a reluctant entrepreneur, circus-clown musician turned author. In 1998, Derek created CD Baby by helping his friends sell their CDs. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100 million in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22 million, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He went to speak at the TED Conference, for 3 times in 2010 (which is unheard of), with more than 18 million views o...
#39 The 26 Year Old Doctor that Amassed a 500K YouTube Following, Ali Abdaal
March 16, 2020 06:11 - 2 hours - 211 MBAli Abdaal, is a YouTuber and junior doctor in the UK. His YouTube channel has more than 30 millions view and 500K subscribers. He is also the founder of 6med, the largest medical exam preparation crash course in the world. Ali holds a doctorate from Cambridge University. In this conversation, we spoke about: Ali's battle-tested learning techniques How to choose your doctors How to grow a YouTube while having a 50 hours/workweek doctor gig and much more!
#39 The 25 Year Old Doctor that Amassed a 500K YouTube Following, Ali Abdaal
March 16, 2020 06:11 - 2 hours - 211 MBAli Abdaal, is a YouTuber and junior doctor in the UK. His YouTube channel has more than 30 millions view and 500K subscribers. He is also the founder of 6med, the largest medical exam preparation crash course in the world. Ali holds a doctorate from Cambridge University. In this conversation, we spoke about: Ali's battle-tested learning techniques How to choose your doctors How to grow a YouTube while having a 50 hours/workweek doctor gig and much more! Hosted on Acast. See...
#38 The Decision Coach from the Inaugural Team of Seth Godin’s altMBA, Michelle Florendo
December 30, 2019 07:11 - 1 hour - 107 MBMichelle Florendo, is a coach for Type-A professionals and executives. She has served on the inaugural coaching team for Seth Godin’s altMBA, guest-taught on Stanford’s famous Design Your Life course, and is a founding member of the Forbes Coaches Council. Michelle is also a mother of 2, admits these achievements. Her coaching philosophy is a blend of decision engineering, design thinking, and lean startup principles. Michelle holds a bachelor from Stanford University and an MBA from UC ...
#37: Remote Work, Learning to Code & Happiness – Steph Smith
October 25, 2019 14:16 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBSteph Smith (@stephsmithio), 25 is a senior analyst working on Trends, tracking up-and-coming trends. After less than a year of learning to code (while having a full-time job), she has won the Golden Kitty award for inclusion, on Product Hunt. Steph writes a blog about remote work, women in tech and learning to code. These days when she is not at work, she is building Upread, a tool connecting indie publishers with their readers. In this conversation, we spoke about: Things women...
#36: Khailee Ng — Conversation about Necker Island, Marriage and the Gig Economy
June 24, 2019 18:26 - 2 hours - 97.5 MBKhailee Ng is a managing partner of 500 Startups, a venture capital firm. He has led more than 180 startup investments, with a few “unicorn” successes such as Grab and Bukalapa. Khailee has previously founded Groupsmore which got acquired by Groupon and Says.com, which got subsequently acquired by Media Prima, Malaysia’s largest online media company. BUT, even if you have zero interest in startups, this episode is well worth the time. This is really about the habits and beliefs of a succ...
#35:The 34 Years Old Internet Millionaire Who Sold Everything Away, Alvin Poh
May 05, 2019 06:55 - 1 hour - 141 MBAlvin Poh is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Vodien, a cloud hosting company. Vodien was founded in 2002. It was later acquired by Dreamscape in 2017, and was valued for S$ 30million. Shortly after being a millionaire at 33 years old, he sold most of his belongings (including his Lamborghini) and embraced minimalism. Alvin holds a masters in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon. He is now travelling and snowboarding around the world. In this conversation, we spoke about: Why A...
#34: Conference Hacking, Self-Awareness and Personal System with JR Hinds
July 29, 2018 10:35 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBJR Hinds is the owner of Hinds and Associates, specialising in employer-sponsored health insurance plans. Today, over 90% of his business is developed through referrals. He has a private pilot’s license and flies a Cessna 172. He also jumped out of an airplane twice (but never one that he was flying). JR rappelled down the building the day before his wedding day and threw a surprise wedding for his 50 guests. One of his favourite things to do is to spend time with his 4 nephews and his...
#33: The Magician Behind the Higher Education Revolution, Michelle Jones
July 15, 2018 10:28 - 3 hours - 190 MB“I don't think we ask deep enough questions and give young people enough credit for being able to have those answer within themselves.”– Michelle Jones Michelle Jones is the founder of a higher education institution, Wayfinding Academy. It is a new 2-year college aiming to revolutionize higher education. They have been approved to offer Associate’s degrees by Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission. She has taught in traditional colleges for 15 years. Some of the institutions i...
#32: Building a Million-Dollar Design Agency, Daniel Lim
April 21, 2018 11:02 - 2 hours - 155 MB“It is not a failure if there are lessons to be learnt from it.” – Daniel Lim Daniel Lim is an entrepreneur and business coach. His coaching and training practice aims to help people to redefine success, build businesses and do work which is aligned with their values and purpose. Daniel's former design studio, Studio MDS work with clients such as Capella Hotels, Singapore Flyer and National Heritage Board. In 2017, he designed and ran a retreat called #howtohuman for DesignSingapore ...
#31: The 25 Years Old Kid that Took the AI World by Storm, Annabelle Kwok
March 01, 2018 04:07 - 2 hours - 79 MBAnnabelle Kwok, 25 is the founder of NeuralBay, an Artificial Intelligence company that specialises in vision analytics. She consults with companies on A.I. driven solutions and was previously the founding CEO of SmartCow. At 20, she travelled alone for 6 weeks to Togo, West Africa. She has witness people fainting from malaria, getting robbed at knife-point, and balanced buckets of water on her head. At 22, she met U.S. President Barack Obama under a youth programme representing Singap...
#30: The Psychiatrist Who Started the Addiction Management Department at IMH, Dr Munidasa Winslow
October 11, 2017 02:19 - 1 hour - 83.2 MB"No one says that decided to start drinking because my ambition in life is to be an alcoholic. It’s rubbish.” – Dr Munidasa Winslow Munidasa Winslow is a psychiatrist and the executive director of Promises Healthcare. He has been practising psychiatry since 1988 and is known for his work in addiction medicine and impulse control disorders. He was also responsible for the setting up the Addiction Management Department at the Institute of Mental Health. His last appointment at IMH was the ...
#29: The Couple that Built JobsCentral and Cashed Out, Lim Der Shing and Huang Shao-Ning
September 24, 2017 06:20 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBLim Der Shing is currently a private investor, Venture Advisor with Jungle Seedplus and board member with several organizations. Huang Shao-Ning is the Managing Partner of Hub Ventures Fund and a Partner at Entrepreneur First, the world’s leading company builder. Together, they are the co-founders of JobsCentral Group and manage a regional portfolio of over 17 angel investments in startups. JobCentral grew from a 2-man startup into an organization with 150 employees over a period of 14 y...
#28 - From Building the Red Rhino to Creating an Iron-Man, Peter Ho
September 11, 2017 08:36 - 1 hour - 105 MBPeter Ho is the CEO of HOPE Technik, an engineering company specializing in Unmanned systems, Defence, Bio-medical, Smart Logistics and Special Vehicles. The company has delivered over 400 projects across 18 countries to date and projects included (but not limited to) the last 4 versions of Red Rhino for the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF). HOPE Technik was awarded the Most Technologically Disruptive Collaboration (Collaboration Towards Smart Factory Using Autonomous Guided Vehicles...
#27: The Singaporean Toymaker Who Kickstarted to the Global TED Conference, Michael Sng
July 23, 2017 08:22 - 2 hours - 174 MBMichael Sng is the principal designer of Machination Studio. He is the creator of the Codename Colossus - a Walking War Machine with 435 individually 3D-printed parts. Michael is the first Singaporean who spoke on the main stage at the TED Conference (2016) in Vancouver. He holds a Bachelor of Graphic Design (Advertising) from the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2000). In this conversation, we spoke about: Tools and skills to design and build a 3D printed & moving t...
#26: Claire Chiang - The Woman Behind the Banyan Tree Resort Group
July 09, 2017 03:01 - 2 hours - 67.8 MB“If you allow all these barriers and challenges around you to impact you, you’ll never walk out of the house and have terrible mental health. So, get over it.” – Claire Chiang Claire Chiang is the co-founder of Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts. She was the Singapore's Woman of the Year (1999). She was the first of two women who to break the long-standing tradition of an all-male member of Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI). Claire is the chairperson of the Wildlife R...
#25: ShiGGa Shay - The Hip Hop Artist From Singapore Who Made It
June 25, 2017 02:06 - 1 hour - 36.2 MBPek Jin Shen, 25, better known by his stage name ShiGGa Shay is a Singaporean hip-hop artist, songwriter, director, and music producer. In 2012, ShiGGa was named the "Unsigned Talent of The Week" by WorldStarHipHop. He was the first Singaporean hip-hop Artist that made it to iTunes top chart with his song, LimPeh. In 2016, ShiGGa Shay was invited by the US Ambassador to perform at the White House State Dinner after-party. ShiGGa is also a founder member of hip hop group Grizzle Grin...
#24: The Architect Behind the Iconic People's Park Complex, Tay Kheng Soon
June 11, 2017 05:49 - 2 hours - 58.1 MBTay Kheng Soon is the founder and principal partner of the architect firm, Akitek Tenggara. In the span of his career, he was responsible for many iconic buildings around Singapore. Some of these include (but not limited to) People's park Complex, Golden Mile Complex and KK Woman's and Children hospital. He was president of the Singapore Institute of Architects (1991-1993); the founding member and chairman of the Singapore Planning and Urban Research Group (1970-1971); chairman of The S...
#23: The Head Writer of Esquire SG, Wayne Cheong
May 26, 2017 22:40 - 1 hour - 94.6 MBWayne Cheong is the head writer for Esquire Singapore. He is a two-time recipient of the MPAS (Media Publishers Association of Singapore) "Journalist of The Year”, for both 2014 and 2015. He has interviewed numerous iconic personalities, including Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Dev Patel, Colin Schooling, "The SMRT Vigilanteh" and Eric Bana, amongst others. On the side, Wayne performs standup comedy regularly. He has performed at Singapore Comedy Fringe Festival, Talk Cock Comedy 2015 as well as r...
#22: The Polymath Civil Servant Who Writes Poetry and Innovates, Aaron Maniam
May 14, 2017 04:28 - 2 hours - 58.4 MBAaron Maniam is the Director (Industry Division) of the Ministry of Trade and Industry Singapore. He has received numerous awards including (but not limited to), Asia Society’s “Asia 21 Young Leaders’ (2006), Singapore Youth Award (2012), and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2013). Aaron's poems have won many awards including the National Arts Council’s Golden Point Award (2003). His poems have been featured in online journals such as Stylus and Softblow and in print publicatio...
#21: Benny Se Teo on How to Turn Your Life Around From a Heroin Addiction
April 30, 2017 02:06 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBBenny Se Teo is the co-founder of Eighteen Chefs. Benny spent 10 years getting in and out of prison. At the age of 45 in 2005, he opened Goshen and started cooking professionally. Benny is also the author of Honest Good Food - a book where he shares his collection of comfort food recipes that are inspired by his childhood memories and personal experiences. In this conversation, we spoke about Benny's childhood packing opium Why is it so hard to kick the drug habit? Benny's experi...
#20: The Most Terrifying Couchsurfing Host… and What He Taught Me, Richard Chong
April 16, 2017 01:15 - 1 hour - 108 MBRichard Chong retired from the Australian Army at the peak of his military career as a Paratrooper after more than 13 years of service, serving in multiple deployments at several theatres of conflict around the globe. He is also a practitioner of several martial arts codes including Krav Maga, Silat, Filipino Martial Arts, slacklining and body flying. In 2010, Richard was my first Couchsurfing host in Melbourne and he had opened up my world. We became good friends and he brought me to my...
#19: The #1 Dating Expert in South East Asia, Violet Lim
April 01, 2017 08:53 - 2 hours - 121 MBViolet Lim is the co-founder and CEO of Lunch Actually, the largest dating company in South East Asia, which started humbly in Singapore. Since 2004, Lunch Actually has acquired 5 companies and now have offices in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Hong Kong, Jakarta and Bangkok. She is also the CEO of esync, an online-to-offline dating platform and LunchClick, a dating app that prides itself on disallowing the messaging function. Violet is also the president of Matchmaking Institute in Singapore and ...
#18: From Running a Flea Market Stall to a BMW at the Age of 21, Gina Tow
March 19, 2017 00:46 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBGina Tow is the founder and owner of Happy Rollies. Happy Rollies was started in 2015 and has since grown from a humble flea market stall selling ice cream at Geylang Serai market to having 20 ice-cream carts and 2 mini-vans now. Gina Tow has since developed other food items such as Churros, Watermelon Volcano, Toasted Smores and Cheese Chicken Cubes. If you are heading down to Geylang Serai Bazaar this year, keep a look-out for her stall(s). She is cooking up some excitement for all of ...
#17: The First All-Inclusive Hawker School for the Disadvantaged, Koh Seng Choon
March 03, 2017 16:30 - 1 hour - 88.8 MB"Success is a satisfying state of the mind, failure is when you stop trying." - Koh Seng Choon Koh Seng Choon is the founder and managing director of Dignity Kitchen, Singapore's first hawker training centre for people with disabilities and the disadvantaged. Dignity Kitchen has trained over 400 individuals and successfully given job placements to all of them. Project Dignity's mission is to build and return dignity to the disadvantaged and people with disabilities through vocation with pa...
#16: Adrian Pang - The Singaporean Actor who Waltz into Hollywood
February 20, 2017 23:23 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBAdrian Pang is an artistic director, actor and host. He is also the co-founder of PangdemoniumTheatre Company with his wife, Tracie Pang. He has won “Best Actor” award at the national Life! Theatre Awards and the 14th Asian Television Awards (ATA). Adrian has appeared in numerous local and international films including Forever Fever, The Carrot Cake Conversations, Unlucky Plaza and Blackhat. He also co-wrote, produced and starred in Six Weeks, which aired on MediaWorks in 2004. Hoste...
Ep15 - Bjorn Shen: Singapore's Most Rebellious Chef
February 04, 2017 02:13 - 2 hours - 243 MB“Chefs need arrogance, business that wants to build a brand needs arrogance” – Bjorn Shen Bjorn Shen (IG: @bjornshen) is the chef-owner of Artichoke, Bird Bird and an ice-cream brand, Neh Neh Pop - their Instagram feed make my stomach growl. Bjorn Shen is also the author of the Artichoke cookbook and writes a monthly column titled “Bjorn says” for Time Out Magazine. On the side, he also is a lecturer at Culinary Institute of America. In this conversation, we spoke about: Story of Bjo...
Ep 14 - How to Live Thoughtfully with Passion, Kuik Shiao-Yin
January 21, 2017 07:19 - 1 hour - 160 MBKuik Shiao-Yin is the co-founder and creative director of The Thought Collective. It is comprised of various companies – School of Thought, which offers tuition for General Paper and Language Arts; Food for Thought, a socially ethical restaurant chain and Think Tank, a branding and content curation agency. She is also a two-term Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 13: Jack Sim, The Sh*t that Put Him on the United Nation Map
January 07, 2017 11:45 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBJack Sim is the founder of the World Toilet Organization (WTO), Base of Pyramid Hub (BoP Hub), World Toilet College (WTC) and the Restroom Association of Singapore. At the age of 40, he attained financial independence after creating a series of 16 successful businesses. Thereafter, he decided to retire and devote his life to social work. Jack has been named the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur and is an Ashoka Global fellow. Jack also sits on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda ...
Ep 12 - Meet the Bestselling Author of The Teenage Textbook, Adrian Tan
December 17, 2016 07:09 - 1 hour - 208 MBAdrian Tan is the author of The Teenage Textbook and The Teenage Workbook which were both national bestsellers. The two books sold over 50,000 copies. The books were made into a film - The Teenage Textbook Movie, which topped the box office in Singapore for four weeks. In 2015, The Teenage Textbook was selected by The Business Times as one of the Top 10 English Singapore books from 1965–2015. Adrian is currently a lawyer with Morgan Lewis in Singapore and specialises in intellectual proper...
The Godfather of Singapore's Boutique Hospitality, Loh Lik Peng
December 03, 2016 12:39 - 1 hour - 125 MBLoh Lik Peng is the owner and director of Unlisted Collection. His career began as a litigator during the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997. He mainly dealt with company bankruptcy. His transition to hospitality occurred in 2000 when he bought a property, now known as Hotel 1929, on a bargain and treated it as a passion project. Today, he owns several boutique hotels and restaurants in Singapore, London, Shanghai and Sydney. Some of these include (but not limited to) New Majestic Hotel, Wande...
Ep 11 - The Godfather of Singapore's Boutique Hospitality, Loh Lik Peng
December 03, 2016 12:39 - 1 hour - 125 MBLoh Lik Peng is the owner and director of Unlisted Collection. His career began as a litigator during the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997. He mainly dealt with company bankruptcy. His transition to hospitality occurred in 2000 when he bought a property, now known as Hotel 1929, on a bargain and treated it as a passion project. Today, he owns several boutique hotels and restaurants in Singapore, London, Shanghai and Sydney. Some of these include (but not limited to) New Majestic Hotel, Wande...
Ep 10 - The World Renowned Beatboxer from Singapore, Dharni Ng
November 19, 2016 15:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBDharni Ng (@dharniofficial) started beatboxing at age 15.He studied at Temasek Polytechnic Singapore. In 2011, he won Emperor of the The Mic in Canada. He is the first person in history to win The Grand Beatbox Battle Championship twice in a row. He has also has opened for artistes like Black Eyed Peas, Kanye West, Lady Gaga and performed during Mariah Carey's concert. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 9 - Daniel Ong: The Radio DJ Who Built a Million Dollar Cupcake Empire
November 05, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBDaniel Ong is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Twelve Cupcakes, with more than 40 stores around the region. He was a well-loved radio deejay from Singapore's MediaCorp Radio 987FM and won the most popular radio personality awards in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Daniel also managed the radio station for 15 months. In 2010, he announced that he was leaving the radio industry at large. In 2011, Twelve Cupcakes was born and it has grown to more than 40 stores today. Hosted on Acast. See acast...
Ep 8 - The 21 Year Old Founders of Staple Magazine, Emily Tay and Clara Lee
October 22, 2016 16:00 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBThe 21 Year Old Founders of Staple Magazine, Emily Tay and Clara Lee. Their pilot issue is themed Dizziness of Youth, whereby the notion of “arriving to an age” or the awkward manoeuvre between childhood to adulthood is the topic of interest. We dived into topics including: - The world of publishing; finding contents, curating and marketing the magazine - How they started a magazine at the age of 21 while being full-time students who lived in different time zones - Why one should work bef...
Ep 7 - The Banker Who Became a Carpenter, Plane and Bevel | Rafie Chua
October 09, 2016 10:48 - 1 hour - 131 MBRafie Chua is the founder and creator behind custom furniture studio, Plane and Bevel. In a fast paced consumerism society that demands for cheap and the good, he left banking and dived into this sunset industry of woodworking. He has since created a sustainable business. Rafie's creation can found in restaurant, cafes such as Odette, Merely Ice Cream and Choice Cuts. He has most recently been featured on Michelin Guide Singapore. In the interview, we spoke about: The woodworking scene in...
Ep 6 - Security Guard to Stand-up Commedian, Fakkah Fuzz
September 25, 2016 11:44 - 1 hour - 132 MBFakkah Fuzz is undoubtedly one of the funniest man in Singapore. I first saw him years ago in a Freestyle Rap Battle where he is “Eminem–Roasting” the opposing rappers. I was cheering. Fuzz, unlike any of us, he DID not do well in school in Malacca. After coming back to Singapore, he took whatever jobs that were available. If that means being a security guard or a waiter, he took it. Fast forward, he “nailed” it at his very own stand-up comedy special – “In Fuzz We Trust” at the Singapore ...
Ep 5: The Adman who Brought his Son to TED, Calvin Soh
September 10, 2016 04:02 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBCalvin Soh is one of the most sought after admen in Singapore. He entered the advertising industry at the bottom of the rung as a traffic and worked his way up to becoming the vice chairman and later chief creative officer for Publicis Asia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 4: Owner and Barman of Spiffy Dapper, George Cherian Abhishek
August 28, 2016 15:09 - 1 hour - 133 MBGeorge Cherian Abhishek is the owner of The Spiffy Dapper, the WORST bar in the world and Dapper Coffee that created the Unicorn Tears and Merlion Blood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 3: The 60 year old woman who travelled the world, Betty Lee
July 29, 2016 23:42 - 1 hour - 128 MBAt the young age of 60 years old, Betty Lee packed her bag, sealed away her belongings and embarked on the next chapter of her life – travelling solo for the next 400 days of her life! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 2: The contender for Mount Everest, Jeremy Tong
July 21, 2016 14:36 - 48 minutes - 90 MBJeremy Tong is a traveller, adventurer and mountaineer. He has conquered many mountains throughout his 12 years of climbing. Some of these mountains include Mera Peak in Nepal, Aconcagua in Argentina and Lenin peak at Kyrgyzstan. He currently plotting his way to the highest mountain in the world, Mt Everest next year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ep 1: Consultant to the kingdom of Bhutan, Dr Loretta Chen
July 21, 2016 09:24 - 1 hour - 124 MBDr Loretta Chen is a person with the most extensive range of life experiences I’ve ever met. You might know Loretta as a consultant for Bhutan or the director of thought-provoking theatre shows, but that’s a tiny piece of the story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.